Nutritional Formula
Supplying global plants for nutritional formulas
GEA has more than 50 years of experience supplying end-to-end processing lines for all kinds of nutritional formula products. We design, configure and install reliable, trouble-free solutions that fit in with your process, product and business needs, meet the most stringent regulatory standards, and deliver consistent powders and liquid products with tailor-made functional performance.
The demand for premium quality, milk-based nutritional formulas is on the rise. Industry has developed a wide range of products, including powders that provide complete nutrition for infants, key nutritional supplements for children and adults who have special dietary needs.
We understand that no two nutritional formula recipes or production processes will be the same. As a manufacturer you will have highly specific process requirements, so our GEA experts work closely with customers to configure plants that match expected product properties, and plant operating requirements.
Our state-of-the-art technologies are designed to help to maximize plant flexibility and to improve traceability and overall operational efficiency. We think that our complete process lines will give you, and consumers, great confidence in the quality and safety of your finished products and brands!
Hygienic plant design for safety in infant formula production
Microbiological safety is a critical consideration at every stage of nutritional formula production, from ingredient reception through to final product packing. GEA equipment is manufactured to meets the most stringent hygiene requirements, and features automated clean-in-place (CIP) systems to help make sure cleaning is thorough, but efficient. GEA solutions can also help you ensure full and transparent traceability of raw materials and ingredients, throughout the process and into the final product.
Optimized plant performance and sustainable solutions
We select the most up-to-date, proven equipment and components to configure reliable and durable plants that will also offer maximum productivity. GEA solutions are tailored to meet your process and operating requirements, while helping to maximize yield, uptime and so productivity, which ultimately reduces your total cost of ownership. We understand the need to focus on environmentally sound, sustainable production, and have used our expertise to identify significant energy-saving and energy-management opportunities. Wherever possible we can suggest resource-saving technologies and options that help to reduce energy use, recycle heat and water, and keep waste and product loss to a minimum.
From ingredients reception right through to evaporation, spray drying, powder filling and palletizing, GEA can tailor end-to-end, turnkey solutions for processing high quality nutritional formulas for global markets.
Products & Technologies
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Analytical, in-line control & measurement devices
Combining process monitoring using online analyzers, together with solid process engineering principles and advanced process modelling techniques will enable processes to be actively controlled in order to compensate for input variations.
Aseptic valves & components
Aseptic valves face exceptionally high demands within UltraClean and Aseptic processes. You can be assured that they all provide highest quality in terms of hygienic design and sustainability.
Automatic Powder Fillers
Our Inline Automatic Filler range has been designed to provide a flexible powder filling solution to suit plants which may need to increase production capacity to meet future demand.
The Inline Filler range comprises a single head model (IBF-450) that can be upgraded to include a single top-up system (IBF-600) or dual top-up system (IBF-800) to ...
Bag Closers
GEA offers a range of bag closing systems to suit most powder packing applications. Flexible bags come in a variety of sizes, types and construction, all of which have different requirements for handling and closing. Our range of hygienic closing and sealing systems has been designed to meet the needs of the world's powdered food, dairy and nutra...
Customer case
Delivering solutions for sustainable baby formula manufacturing at Danone
Customer case
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